Soldier's Joy

I picked up the basics of this old fiddle tune from my banjo bible and then trawled Youtube for variations and a sense of the tune. It seems like it's the Cripple Creek of C tuning and once you have the bouncy nature of the fingering its a great and relatively simple tune to relax into and enjoy to play. It follows the AA BB stucture of many banjo tunes derived from fiddle music and I play it capoed at the second fret raising the C tuning (gCGCD) to play in the the key of D (aDADE)

Playing with a capo

I've been messing about with a capo trying it quite way up/down the neck. This little tune is played with it on the seventh fret.

Guitar and Capo

This is a bit of guitar in open g using the capo on the 2nd fret.

Wreck of the Old '97

Tried this song with a capo in D at the seventh fret. Playing is coming on but the singing is shocking!

Worried Man Blues

Worried Man Blues with capo in D

Master Stan Gee said I have to try playing and singing in different keys to see how it works with my voice (which is pretty crappy). As I haven't got the hang of the four fingered chords up the neck yet, I've been using a capo to raise the pitch of the banjo. I've tried this song in A ansd C but it felt most comfortable in D so here it is. I've used Patrick Costello's tab from the Outlaws and Scalawags Song Book.



Worried Man Blues in D (capo at the 7th fret)

Playlist for Monday's Jam - and a couple of tunes

MC Clawhammer's sent in a couple of songs Wildwood Flower and Foggy Mountain Breakdown. The kids obviously love it!


Banks of the Ohio in A

This is the first thing I've recorded using a capo to tune the banjo up into A. I also tuned up the fifth string to A as well, not sure if this what you are supposed to do but it sounded bad without... not that it's that great with.

Playlist for Monday night's jam.

• Jesse James
• Wildwood Flower
• Cripple Creek
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Suggestions

• Whiskey in the Jar
• Worried Man Blues
• Camptown Races
• Wabash Cannonball (in C - I'll copy the tab)
• Shortnin Bread
• Dirty Old Town
• Wreck of the Old '97
• Irish Washerwoman